which do u think is more difficult?
elusive_one
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Which do you think is harder to do - sing and play guitar OR sing and play bass? The reason I ask is cos I've been playing gtr for about 8 years, and bass about 10 months and I've been having problems singing while playing bass... it's the seperating the rhythm of the bass while putting a different melody over it that is getting me kinda mixed up. I just can't work out if it's my lack of bass experience or if it is actually more difficult to sing and play bass.
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I've been playing bass for close to 5 years now and I've never been good at it, so it's not just you...
I feel playing drums and singing is hardest because your feet hands and mouth are all doing different things.
How do you tell when the stage is level?
The drummer drools from both sides of his mouth.
Tho I don't play drums (I did for a year when I was 16 but it was hard to continue playing drums w/out a drumkit), I can imagine drumming and singing would be really hard... I dunno how some drummers do it!
It took me a long time to learn to sing and play guitar together. I started with the easy stuff, progressed to harder stuff... Really, once I got comfortable playing the guitar, I was able to let my hands do all the work there and let my mind concentrate on the vocals. It became sort of second-nature.
Then my band switched me to bass after our bass player quit... I went into it with only a few practices, went into our first show as a bass player, and was surprised by how easily I sang while playing bass. A lot of it was being familiar with the songs... had been playing them on rhythm guitar for two years by then. It was a lot more difficult to write new basslines and harmonies together, though...
Now, playing mandolin, piano, or drums, singing is less a problem, because my mouth can do the work, and I can let my mind focus on playing the instrument.
So, it all comes with practice...
Yeah, I try... it's just frustrating that 1 comes so easy, the other doesn't... I think it makes our guitarist/singer a bit annoyed too cos i tend to back away from doing backing vocals cos I find it hard to do both. But thanks Spanky... I will keep trying.
once u get good enough at something, like a particular song, but in a general sense as well, it just becomse instinct and u can concentrate on the singing, try doing both sperately lots, then putting it together.